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Louisa Ermelino

Biography

Louisa Ermelino

Louisa Ermelino is the author of three novels: JOEY DEE GETS WISE, THE BLACK MADONNA and THE SISTERS MALLONE. She lives in New York City.

Louisa Ermelino

Books by Louisa Ermelino

by Louisa Ermelino - Fiction, Short Stories

Louisa Ermelino's stories follow women living dangerously at home and abroad, whether in Italian-American neighborhoods or in the countries --- India, Turkey, Afghanistan --- where they seek escape. At home, they break ancient Italian taboos and fall victim to mobsters. Overseas, they smoke opium-laced hashish and sleep with strange men. Ermelino's voice is boisterous and endearingly blunt.